Knowing, seeing, being : Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and the American typological tradition /
Jennifer L. Leader.
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015).
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: a history of the work of typology -- Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards: a reconsideration; Beauty and the eye of the beholder: being and desire in Jonathan Edwards's natural typology -- Emily Dickinson. Immersed in the reformed hermeneutic: origins of Dickinson's typological imagination; Reading with "compound vision": Emily Dickinson and the nineteenth-century "paper wars" ; "Myself; the term between": Dickinson's typology of split subjectivity -- Marianne Moore. Rightly dividing the word of truth: Marianne Moore in her reformed tradition; "Part terrestrial, part celestial": "the real" and "the actual" in Moore's revisionist typology; "Integration too tough for infraction": being, ethics, and aesthetics in early and late Moore.
9781613763759
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 --Criticism and interpretation. Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Criticism and interpretation.
Christianity and literature--History.--United States Hermeneutics--History. Belief, Problem of (Literature) Nature in literature. Typology (Theology) in literature.